# Contributing

First, thank you for contributing! We love and encourge pull requests from everyone.

Here are a few guidelines to follow:

1. Open an [issue][issues] to discuss a new feature.
1. Write tests.
1. Make sure the entire test suite passes locally and on Travis CI.
1. Open a Pull Request.
1. [Squash your commits][squash] after receiving feedback and add a [great commit message][message].
1. Have fun!

[issues]: https://github.com/go-kit/kit/issues
[squash]: http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/10/squashing-commits-with-rebase.html
[message]: https://github.com/go-kit/kit/issues